Daniel Barenboim famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Differences #Listening #Hearing
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Reality #Capacity
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Unique #Playing Music #Achieve
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Philosophical #Racism #Political
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Real #Essence #Manifestation
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Mean #People #Different
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Children #Lessons #Violin
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Museums #Play #Listening
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Death #Talking #Demand
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Tired #Want #Administration
Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Believe #People #Ego
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Silence #Ends #Notes
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Suitcases #Tempo
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Believe #Dark #Thinking
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Silence #Sound #Corny
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Variation #Conducting #Born
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Commitment #Eye #Blue
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Art #Future #Two
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Taken #Trust No One #Escaping
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Europe #Middle East #Conflict
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Pregnancy #Eye #Listening
I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Believe #Destiny #People
Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Taken #Eye #Listening
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Piano #Feelings #Musical

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